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The Shawver truss—introduced in 1904 and invented by John L Shawver of Bellefontaine, Ohio—made of laminated straight boards, became a popular technique for framing gambrel roofs. This design required diagonal braces from within the roof to the floor preventing unobstructed use of both the loft and the barn.
Railroad district (12 total, county boundaries) County; In Texas, the highest level of land subdivision is the boundary of the state itself. Below this are the Texas railroad districts, of which there are 12. These are Spanish grants, surveyed on the "metes and bounds" system of measurement, and are of irregular shape and size.
Warren polygonal chord truss Mulberry Creek Bridge: 1888 1975-04-21 Schulenburg: Fayette: Pratt pony truss. Removed from NRHP on May 20, 2013. [2] Nolan River Bridge 303-A of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway: 1903 2012-12-4
TX-37: Galveston Causeway: Extant Reinforced concrete closed-spandrel arch: 1922 1996 Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway: Galveston Bay: Galveston and Texas City: Galveston: TX-38: Iron Ore Creek Bridge Relocated Warren truss: 1911 1996 CR 597 Iron Ore Creek Denison
November 29, 2013 (0.1 mi. NW. of jct. of Hillje & Kallus Sts. Schulenburg: State Antiquities Landmark, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark; formerly the Mulberry Creek Bridge, originally listed on the National Register in 1975 (listing number 75001976), removed in May 2013 due to relocation.
Bonnet roof: A reversed gambrel or Mansard roof with the lower portion at a lower pitch than the upper portion. Monitor roof: A roof with a monitor; 'a raised structure running part or all of the way along the ridge of a double-pitched roof, with its own roof running parallel with the main roof.'
The Braga Bridge is a continuous truss bridge. It was the fourth longest span of this type when it was completed in 1966. This list of continuous bridge spans ranks the world's continuous truss bridges in two listings: The first is ranked by the length of main span (the longest length of unsupported roadway) and the second by the total length of continuous truss spans.
Gambrel is a Norman English word, sometimes spelled gambol such as in the 1774 Boston carpenters' price book (revised 1800). Other spellings include gamerel, gamrel, gambril, gameral, gambering, cambrel, cambering, chambrel [4] referring to a wooden bar used by butchers to hang the carcasses of slaughtered animals. [1]